Spherical Pendant or Button Byzantine 900–950 This handsomely worked, hollow sphere may have decorated the border of an official scarf, like the loros worn by the Byzantine emperor, or have been used as a button to hold together the outermost vestments of members of the Orthodox clergy. Similar works have been found at Preslav, the capital of the Bulgarian empire in the early tenth century. View more. Spherical Pendant or Button. Byzantine. 900–950. Cloisonné enamel and gold. Made in Bulgaria (possibly). Enamels-Cloisonné

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